Word: laterizing
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...Hasty Pudding Club will give "Conrad and Medora" at Horticultural Hall in Boston on the evenings of Friday April 20th and Saturday April 21st. The proceeds will go to the funds of the University Boat Club. Tickets $1.50 and $2.00. Time and place of sale will be announced later...
...rules, accidents within the first ten strokes are allowed for, and fouling is carefully guarded against, although the Inter-Collegiate rules give a chance for fouls by allowing boats to depart from their course. Such a permission is liable to cause trouble sooner or later. The Harvard and Yale boats are required to keep in a course no nearer than ten feet and no further than one hundred feet from the line of central buoys...
...begin with all necessary enthusiasm but soon tire of the somewhat monotonous work. Thus we find the second eight continually growing smaller, and when vacancies occur these must be filled by men who have little experience. These troubles could be lessened in a great degree by beginning to row later in the season. If the crew began practising immediately after the holidays there would be sufficient time to get the best men of the class in good form by the time the river opened, and there would be no difficulty in keeping up the interest for so short a time...
...government was pressed for money, and a general system of internal taxation was determined upon and put into action by the bill of this year. Mr. Morrill, in order to compensate for this tax upon the people, proposed a bill, which was passed, raising the tariff rate. Two years later the great "Tariff Act of 1864" was passed, which is said to be the largest financial transaction in the world's history. Internal taxes were considerably raised, and tariff duties were made much larger than ever before...
...passed for the protection or wool and woollen goods. This act introduces the highest and most unreasonable of all tariff duties. Two years later an act was passed over President Johnson's veto, putting a high tariff on copper. In 1872 Mr. John Hayes proposed a reduction of ten percent. on all duties, a scheme which so pleased Congress that it was passed only to be changed, however, in 1875, when the tariff rate went back to what it had been prior...